France Guide - Department des Ardennes

Départment des Ardennes
The department of the Ardennes takes its name from the Ardennes Forest covering the South-East of Belgium and stretching into the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the adjacent part of France.
It has a surface area of 5,229 km², a population of 290,000 inhabitants, and is divided into four administrative districts (arrondissements in French) for a total of 37 cantons and 463 municipalities.
It borders (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of Namur and Luxembourg, the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg and the French départments of Meuse , Marne, and Aisne.
In ancient times, the Ardennes belonged to the Roman Province of Gallia Belgica. From the 4th century, the Salian Franks settled in the region (=> see History of the Franks)
Touristic places
Charleville-Mézières
Sedan
Rethel

French Cities (North)
Paris
Amiens
Arras
Bavay
Beauvais
Béthune
Boulogne
Calais
Cambrai
Charleville-Mézières
Colmar
Douai
Dunkirk
Epinal
Laon
Lille
Maubeuge
Metz
Nancy
Noyon
Reims
Rethel
Sedan
Senlis
Soissons
Strasbourg
Valenciennes
Verdun

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